Here are a few life drawings from the past couple of quarters. They are all charcoal on newsprint. Some are five- and 10-minute quicksketches, some are 20-minute layins, and some are completed sketches done in a couple of hours or so. These are just a few of all the drawings I did in Ron’s classes; one of the great things about publishing in blog format is that I can choose only the ones that I think are worth looking at…
Five- and 10-minute quicksketches:
quicksketches
quicksketches
quicksketches
quicksketches
quicksketches
quicksketches
quicksketches
Quicksketches are vital to learning gesture, structure and focusing on large forms and rhythms rather than details (no time for details). They can go all the way down to three-minute, one-minute, or even thirty-second. Here’s a set of three-minute sketches that represents one of my best days ever:
three-minute quicksketches
A few 20-minute structural layins:
20-minute layin
20-minute layin
20-minute layin
And a few two-hour sketches:
Life drawing
Life drawing
Life drawing
Thanks for looking – more paintings to follow soon!
L. Lawrence Bispo 